On the long road to addiction recovery, you need as many tools as possible to help you stay on track reach your goals. That's why this is the first book to combine research-proven motivational techniques, CBT, and mindfulness-based strategies to help you create your own unique recovery plan. The book can be used on its own or as a tool to complement professionally guided treatment, such as behavioral therapy or medication. It also makes a wonderful resource for loved ones and professionals treating addiction.
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If you're ready to take that important first step toward recovery, this book can help you beat your addiction and get back to living a full, meaningful life.
The Addiction Recovery Skills Workbook offer practical, evidence-based therapeutic skills fusing cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), motivational interviewing, and mindfulness-based relapse prevention to help you move past your addictive behaviors.
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Praise for the book
Glasner explains the complex science of addiction in terms that everyone can understand. Most important, she provides guidance to help the afflicted overcome this illness. This book will help end the stigma of addiction and it will save lives.
D. Sheff
New York Times best-selling author
Glasner has developed a resource that is at the cutting edge of recovery from addiction…she provides readers with key tools necessary to build the motivation to change, learn the skills needed to change, and apply those skills to achieving and maintaining change.
J. R. McQuaid, PhD
Professor, University of California
Glasner has taken the very best of addiction science and turned it into common sense and step-by-step instructions. … this workbook will be as important for families and friends of addicted individuals as for those affected directly….A powerful and practical tool to aid recovery.
A. T. McLellan
Founder / Chairman of the board — Treatment Research Institute
A cutting-edge, comprehensive, and interactive approach to the science of addiction recovery, written with great respect and compassion for the reader. Anyone struggling with the demons of addiction will find real help here, and hope.
T. Cheney
Author of the New York Times bestseller Manic
Glasner offers a range of interactive evidence-based therapy tools and techniques to achieve self-directed behavioral change. It integrates several important approaches…giving individuals powerful tools to tackle this devastating illness.
K. Miotto
MD, Professor, University of California at Los Angeles
Glasner explains the complex science of addiction in terms that everyone can understand. Most important, she provides guidance to help the afflicted overcome this illness. This book will help end the stigma of addiction and it will save lives.
D. Sheff
New York Times best-selling author
Glasner has developed a resource that is at the cutting edge of recovery from addiction…she provides readers with key tools necessary to build the motivation to change, learn the skills needed to change, and apply those skills to achieving and maintaining change.
J. R. McQuaid, PhD
Professor, University of California
Glasner has taken the very best of addiction science and turned it into common sense and step-by-step instructions. … this workbook will be as important for families and friends of addicted individuals as for those affected directly….A powerful and practical tool to aid recovery.
A. T. McLellan
Founder / Chairman of the board — Treatment Research Institute
A cutting-edge, comprehensive, and interactive approach to the science of addiction recovery, written with great respect and compassion for the reader. Anyone struggling with the demons of addiction will find real help here, and hope.
T. Cheney
Author of the New York Times bestseller Manic
Glasner offers a range of interactive evidence-based therapy tools and techniques to achieve self-directed behavioral change. It integrates several important approaches…giving individuals powerful tools to tackle this devastating illness.
K. Miotto
MD, Professor, University of California at Los Angeles
Glasner explains the complex science of addiction in terms that everyone can understand. Most important, she provides guidance to help the afflicted overcome this illness. This book will help end the stigma of addiction and it will save lives.
D. Sheff
New York Times best-selling author
Glasner has developed a resource that is at the cutting edge of recovery from addiction…she provides readers with key tools necessary to build the motivation to change, learn the skills needed to change, and apply those skills to achieving and maintaining change.
J. R. McQuaid, PhD
Professor, University of California
Glasner has taken the very best of addiction science and turned it into common sense and step-by-step instructions. … this workbook will be as important for families and friends of addicted individuals as for those affected directly….A powerful and practical tool to aid recovery.
A. T. McLellan
Founder / Chairman of the board — Treatment Research Institute
A cutting-edge, comprehensive, and interactive approach to the science of addiction recovery, written with great respect and compassion for the reader. Anyone struggling with the demons of addiction will find real help here, and hope.
T. Cheney
Author of the New York Times bestseller Manic
Glasner offers a range of interactive evidence-based therapy tools and techniques to achieve self-directed behavioral change. It integrates several important approaches…giving individuals powerful tools to tackle this devastating illness.
K. Miotto
MD, Professor, University of California at Los Angeles
Glasner explains the complex science of addiction in terms that everyone can understand. Most important, she provides guidance to help the afflicted overcome this illness. This book will help end the stigma of addiction and it will save lives.
D. Sheff
New York Times best-selling author
Glasner has developed a resource that is at the cutting edge of recovery from addiction…she provides readers with key tools necessary to build the motivation to change, learn the skills needed to change, and apply those skills to achieving and maintaining change.
J. R. McQuaid, PhD
Professor, University of California
Glasner has taken the very best of addiction science and turned it into common sense and step-by-step instructions. … this workbook will be as important for families and friends of addicted individuals as for those affected directly….A powerful and practical tool to aid recovery.
A. T. McLellan
Founder / Chairman of the board — Treatment Research Institute
A cutting-edge, comprehensive, and interactive approach to the science of addiction recovery, written with great respect and compassion for the reader. Anyone struggling with the demons of addiction will find real help here, and hope.
T. Cheney
Author of the New York Times bestseller Manic
Glasner offers a range of interactive evidence-based therapy tools and techniques to achieve self-directed behavioral change. It integrates several important approaches…giving individuals powerful tools to tackle this devastating illness.
K. Miotto
MD, Professor, University of California at Los Angeles
Glasner explains the complex science of addiction in terms that everyone can understand. Most important, she provides guidance to help the afflicted overcome this illness. This book will help end the stigma of addiction and it will save lives.
D. Sheff
New York Times best-selling author
Glasner has developed a resource that is at the cutting edge of recovery from addiction…she provides readers with key tools necessary to build the motivation to change, learn the skills needed to change, and apply those skills to achieving and maintaining change.
J. R. McQuaid, PhD
Professor, University of California
Glasner has taken the very best of addiction science and turned it into common sense and step-by-step instructions. … this workbook will be as important for families and friends of addicted individuals as for those affected directly….A powerful and practical tool to aid recovery.
A. T. McLellan
Founder / Chairman of the board — Treatment Research Institute
A cutting-edge, comprehensive, and interactive approach to the science of addiction recovery, written with great respect and compassion for the reader. Anyone struggling with the demons of addiction will find real help here, and hope.
T. Cheney
Author of the New York Times bestseller Manic
Glasner offers a range of interactive evidence-based therapy tools and techniques to achieve self-directed behavioral change. It integrates several important approaches…giving individuals powerful tools to tackle this devastating illness.
K. Miotto
MD, Professor, University of California at Los Angeles
Glasner explains the complex science of addiction in terms that everyone can understand. Most important, she provides guidance to help the afflicted overcome this illness. This book will help end the stigma of addiction and it will save lives.
D. Sheff
New York Times best-selling author
Glasner has developed a resource that is at the cutting edge of recovery from addiction…she provides readers with key tools necessary to build the motivation to change, learn the skills needed to change, and apply those skills to achieving and maintaining change.
J. R. McQuaid, PhD
Professor, University of California
Glasner has taken the very best of addiction science and turned it into common sense and step-by-step instructions. … this workbook will be as important for families and friends of addicted individuals as for those affected directly….A powerful and practical tool to aid recovery.
A. T. McLellan
Founder / Chairman of the board — Treatment Research Institute
A cutting-edge, comprehensive, and interactive approach to the science of addiction recovery, written with great respect and compassion for the reader. Anyone struggling with the demons of addiction will find real help here, and hope.
T. Cheney
Author of the New York Times bestseller Manic
Glasner offers a range of interactive evidence-based therapy tools and techniques to achieve self-directed behavioral change. It integrates several important approaches…giving individuals powerful tools to tackle this devastating illness.
K. Miotto
MD, Professor, University of California at Los Angeles
Glasner explains the complex science of addiction in terms that everyone can understand. Most important, she provides guidance to help the afflicted overcome this illness. This book will help end the stigma of addiction and it will save lives.
D. Sheff
New York Times best-selling author
Glasner has developed a resource that is at the cutting edge of recovery from addiction…she provides readers with key tools necessary to build the motivation to change, learn the skills needed to change, and apply those skills to achieving and maintaining change.
J. R. McQuaid, PhD
Professor, University of California
Glasner has taken the very best of addiction science and turned it into common sense and step-by-step instructions. … this workbook will be as important for families and friends of addicted individuals as for those affected directly….A powerful and practical tool to aid recovery.
A. T. McLellan
Founder / Chairman of the board — Treatment Research Institute
A cutting-edge, comprehensive, and interactive approach to the science of addiction recovery, written with great respect and compassion for the reader. Anyone struggling with the demons of addiction will find real help here, and hope.
T. Cheney
Author of the New York Times bestseller Manic
Glasner offers a range of interactive evidence-based therapy tools and techniques to achieve self-directed behavioral change. It integrates several important approaches…giving individuals powerful tools to tackle this devastating illness.
K. Miotto
MD, Professor, University of California at Los Angeles
Glasner explains the complex science of addiction in terms that everyone can understand. Most important, she provides guidance to help the afflicted overcome this illness. This book will help end the stigma of addiction and it will save lives.
D. Sheff
New York Times best-selling author
Glasner has developed a resource that is at the cutting edge of recovery from addiction…she provides readers with key tools necessary to build the motivation to change, learn the skills needed to change, and apply those skills to achieving and maintaining change.
J. R. McQuaid, PhD
Professor, University of California
Glasner has taken the very best of addiction science and turned it into common sense and step-by-step instructions. … this workbook will be as important for families and friends of addicted individuals as for those affected directly….A powerful and practical tool to aid recovery.
A. T. McLellan
Founder / Chairman of the board — Treatment Research Institute
A cutting-edge, comprehensive, and interactive approach to the science of addiction recovery, written with great respect and compassion for the reader. Anyone struggling with the demons of addiction will find real help here, and hope.
T. Cheney
Author of the New York Times bestseller Manic
Glasner offers a range of interactive evidence-based therapy tools and techniques to achieve self-directed behavioral change. It integrates several important approaches…giving individuals powerful tools to tackle this devastating illness.
K. Miotto
MD, Professor, University of California at Los Angeles
As one of America’s most knowledgeable addiction scientists, Suzette Glasner writes with clarity and authority about the state of the art of treatment for addiction, a devastating disease that affects millions of people and families. Glasner explains the complex science of addiction in terms that everyone can understand. Most important, she provides guidance to help the afflicted overcome this illness. This book will help end the stigma of addiction and it will save lives.
David Sheff
New York Times best-selling author of Clean and the memoir Beautiful Boy
Glasner has taken the very best of addiction science and turned it into common sense and step-by-step instructions. … this workbook will be as important for families and friends of addicted individuals as for those affected directly….A powerful and practical tool to aid recovery.
A. Thomas McLellan
Founder and chairman of the board of the Treatment Research Institute / Former deputy director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
A cutting-edge, comprehensive, and interactive approach to the science of addiction recovery, written with great respect and compassion for the reader. Anyone struggling with the demons of addiction will find real help here, and hope.
Terri Cheney
Author of the New York Times bestseller Manic
In creating The Addiction Recovery Skills Workbook, Glasner has developed a resource that is at the cutting edge of recovery from addiction…she provides readers with key tools necessary to build the motivation to change, learn the skills needed to change, and apply those skills to achieving and maintaining change…integrating the three most critical innovations in evidence-based approaches to treatment in the last fifty years: cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational enhancement, and mindful observation… This workbook will become a standard in the field.
John R. McQuaid, PhD
Professor, University of California at San Francisco, School of Medicine
Glasner provides a hopeful and highly accessible workbook for people struggling with addiction. This book explains the mystery of addiction and how to communicate with addiction treatment providers. It offers a range of interactive evidence-based therapy tools and techniques to achieve self-directed behavioral change. It integrates several important approaches…giving individuals powerful tools to tackle this devastating illness.
Karen Miotto
MD, Professor, University of California at Los Angeles, Dept of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and Director, UCLA Addiction Medicine Service
As one of America’s most knowledgeable addiction scientists, Suzette Glasner writes with clarity and authority about the state of the art of treatment for addiction, a devastating disease that affects millions of people and families. Glasner explains the complex science of addiction in terms that everyone can understand. Most important, she provides guidance to help the afflicted overcome this illness. This book will help end the stigma of addiction and it will save lives.
David Sheff
New York Times best-selling author of Clean and the memoir Beautiful Boy
Glasner has taken the very best of addiction science and turned it into common sense and step-by-step instructions. … this workbook will be as important for families and friends of addicted individuals as for those affected directly….A powerful and practical tool to aid recovery.
A. Thomas McLellan
Founder and chairman of the board of the Treatment Research Institute / Former deputy director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
A cutting-edge, comprehensive, and interactive approach to the science of addiction recovery, written with great respect and compassion for the reader. Anyone struggling with the demons of addiction will find real help here, and hope.
Terri Cheney
Author of the New York Times bestseller Manic
In creating The Addiction Recovery Skills Workbook, Glasner has developed a resource that is at the cutting edge of recovery from addiction…she provides readers with key tools necessary to build the motivation to change, learn the skills needed to change, and apply those skills to achieving and maintaining change…integrating the three most critical innovations in evidence-based approaches to treatment in the last fifty years: cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational enhancement, and mindful observation… This workbook will become a standard in the field.
John R. McQuaid, PhD
Professor, University of California at San Francisco, School of Medicine
Glasner provides a hopeful and highly accessible workbook for people struggling with addiction. This book explains the mystery of addiction and how to communicate with addiction treatment providers. It offers a range of interactive evidence-based therapy tools and techniques to achieve self-directed behavioral change. It integrates several important approaches…giving individuals powerful tools to tackle this devastating illness.
Karen Miotto
MD, Professor, University of California at Los Angeles, Dept of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and Director, UCLA Addiction Medicine Service
As one of America’s most knowledgeable addiction scientists, Suzette Glasner writes with clarity and authority about the state of the art of treatment for addiction, a devastating disease that affects millions of people and families. Glasner explains the complex science of addiction in terms that everyone can understand. Most important, she provides guidance to help the afflicted overcome this illness. This book will help end the stigma of addiction and it will save lives.
David Sheff
New York Times best-selling author of Clean and the memoir Beautiful Boy
Glasner has taken the very best of addiction science and turned it into common sense and step-by-step instructions. … this workbook will be as important for families and friends of addicted individuals as for those affected directly….A powerful and practical tool to aid recovery.
A. Thomas McLellan
Founder and chairman of the board of the Treatment Research Institute / Former deputy director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
A cutting-edge, comprehensive, and interactive approach to the science of addiction recovery, written with great respect and compassion for the reader. Anyone struggling with the demons of addiction will find real help here, and hope.
Terri Cheney
Author of the New York Times bestseller Manic
In creating The Addiction Recovery Skills Workbook, Glasner has developed a resource that is at the cutting edge of recovery from addiction…she provides readers with key tools necessary to build the motivation to change, learn the skills needed to change, and apply those skills to achieving and maintaining change…integrating the three most critical innovations in evidence-based approaches to treatment in the last fifty years: cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational enhancement, and mindful observation… This workbook will become a standard in the field.
John R. McQuaid, PhD
Professor, University of California at San Francisco, School of Medicine
Glasner provides a hopeful and highly accessible workbook for people struggling with addiction. This book explains the mystery of addiction and how to communicate with addiction treatment providers. It offers a range of interactive evidence-based therapy tools and techniques to achieve self-directed behavioral change. It integrates several important approaches…giving individuals powerful tools to tackle this devastating illness.
Karen Miotto
MD, Professor, University of California at Los Angeles, Dept of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and Director, UCLA Addiction Medicine Service
As one of America’s most knowledgeable addiction scientists, Suzette Glasner writes with clarity and authority about the state of the art of treatment for addiction, a devastating disease that affects millions of people and families. Glasner explains the complex science of addiction in terms that everyone can understand. Most important, she provides guidance to help the afflicted overcome this illness. This book will help end the stigma of addiction and it will save lives.
David Sheff
New York Times best-selling author of Clean and the memoir Beautiful Boy
Glasner has taken the very best of addiction science and turned it into common sense and step-by-step instructions. … this workbook will be as important for families and friends of addicted individuals as for those affected directly….A powerful and practical tool to aid recovery.
A. Thomas McLellan
Founder and chairman of the board of the Treatment Research Institute / Former deputy director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
A cutting-edge, comprehensive, and interactive approach to the science of addiction recovery, written with great respect and compassion for the reader. Anyone struggling with the demons of addiction will find real help here, and hope.
Terri Cheney
Author of the New York Times bestseller Manic
In creating The Addiction Recovery Skills Workbook, Glasner has developed a resource that is at the cutting edge of recovery from addiction…she provides readers with key tools necessary to build the motivation to change, learn the skills needed to change, and apply those skills to achieving and maintaining change…integrating the three most critical innovations in evidence-based approaches to treatment in the last fifty years: cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational enhancement, and mindful observation… This workbook will become a standard in the field.
John R. McQuaid, PhD
Professor, University of California at San Francisco, School of Medicine
Glasner provides a hopeful and highly accessible workbook for people struggling with addiction. This book explains the mystery of addiction and how to communicate with addiction treatment providers. It offers a range of interactive evidence-based therapy tools and techniques to achieve self-directed behavioral change. It integrates several important approaches…giving individuals powerful tools to tackle this devastating illness.
Karen Miotto
MD, Professor, University of California at Los Angeles, Dept of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and Director, UCLA Addiction Medicine Service
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The 7 steps to addiction recovery
The 7 steps to addiction recovery
The 7 steps to addiction recovery
Dr. Glasner integrates the most effective addiction therapy techniques to bring you the Seven Steps to Changing Addictive Behaviors, an approach that takes the best of addiction science and explains it in user-friendly terms.
Dr. Glasner integrates the most effective addiction therapy techniques to bring you the Seven Steps to Changing Addictive Behaviors, an approach that takes the best of addiction science and explains it in user-friendly terms.
Dr. Glasner integrates the most effective addiction therapy techniques to bring you the Seven Steps to Changing Addictive Behaviors, an approach that takes the best of addiction science and explains it in user-friendly terms.
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Step 1
Step 1
Step 1
Strengthen motivation & commit to change
Strengthen motivation & commit to change
Strengthen motivation & commit to change
Solidify your commitment to change your alcohol or drug use, using science-based techniques for exploring the impact of your addiction on your life.
Solidify your commitment to change your alcohol or drug use, using science-based techniques for exploring the impact of your addiction on your life.
Solidify your commitment to change your alcohol or drug use, using science-based techniques for exploring the impact of your addiction on your life.
Step 2
Step 2
Step 2
Set yourself up to succeed
Set yourself up to succeed
Set yourself up to succeed
Start making life adjustments that will remove temptation, build a support system, and set you up for the smoothest possible road to recovery.
Start making life adjustments that will remove temptation, build a support system, and set you up for the smoothest possible road to recovery.
Start making life adjustments that will remove temptation, build a support system, and set you up for the smoothest possible road to recovery.
Step 3
Step 3
Step 3
Become a “Self-Expert”
Become a “Self-Expert”
Become a “Self-Expert”
Learn how your addiction controls you, so that you can turn the tables on it and reclaim your self-control. Empower yourself by understanding your unique triggers.
Learn how your addiction controls you, so that you can turn the tables on it and reclaim your self-control. Empower yourself by understanding your unique triggers.
Learn how your addiction controls you, so that you can turn the tables on it and reclaim your self-control. Empower yourself by understanding your unique triggers.
Step 4
Step 4
Step 4
Respond to cognitive distortions
Respond to cognitive distortions
Respond to cognitive distortions
Identify common errors in thinking that can lead to addictive behaviors, and learn how to respond to them in healthy ways to keep you on track.
Identify common errors in thinking that can lead to addictive behaviors, and learn how to respond to them in healthy ways to keep you on track.
Identify common errors in thinking that can lead to addictive behaviors, and learn how to respond to them in healthy ways to keep you on track.
Step 5
Step 5
Step 5
Become mindful
Become mindful
Become mindful
Tune into (not out of) your experience when you crave drugs or alcohol, so that you can make mindful choices about how to handle them.
Tune into (not out of) your experience when you crave drugs or alcohol, so that you can make mindful choices about how to handle them.
Tune into (not out of) your experience when you crave drugs or alcohol, so that you can make mindful choices about how to handle them.
Step 6
Step 6
Step 6
Rediscover rewards
Rediscover rewards
Rediscover rewards
Discover rewarding activities for your recovering brain and body. Learn to reward yourself for making time for pleasurable activities.
Discover rewarding activities for your recovering brain and body. Learn to reward yourself for making time for pleasurable activities.
Discover rewarding activities for your recovering brain and body. Learn to reward yourself for making time for pleasurable activities.
Step 7
Step 7
Step 7
Conquer challenging emotions
Conquer challenging emotions
Conquer challenging emotions
Manage your emotions skillfully, without needing to turn to alcohol or drugs as a crutch.
Manage your emotions skillfully, without needing to turn to alcohol or drugs as a crutch.
Manage your emotions skillfully, without needing to turn to alcohol or drugs as a crutch.
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Every Monday, you’ll get my newsletter. To build your knowledge base about substance misuse and addiction, each week my newsletter will equip you with one scientific fact that you need to know, and one act or action you can take to prevent or change unhealthy alcohol or other substance use.
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Every Monday, you’ll get my newsletter. To build your knowledge base about substance misuse and addiction, each week my newsletter will equip you with one scientific fact that you need to know, and one act or action you can take to prevent or change unhealthy alcohol or other substance use.